A big year for Bucky Barnes keeps getting more exciting for fans of the dark hero. After a killer comeback on the big screen in Captain America: The Winter Soldier and a critical role in Marvel’s big comics event Original Sin, Bucky will get a brand new solo series this Fall.
Bucky Barnes: The Winter Soldier #1 by Ales Kot (Secret Avengers, Zero) and Marco Rudy hits in October following the event of Original Sin according to the A.V. Club. Coming out of the big event series, Bucky will have a new classified role in the Marvel Universe.
“Bucky’s operating on an intergalactic stage now,” editor Wil Moss told The A.V. Club. “The entire Marvel Universe is his playing field, from the depths of Limbo to the heights of Asgard, and everywhere in between. It’d be like if the James Bond movies suddenly had access to the characters and settings of all the other great film franchises.”
Kot was asked how his current writing projects prepare him to take on the iconic sidekick turned assassin turned Captain America turned…into something new.
“In Zero, I explore identity politics, war, violence, lies, nature and nurture – and more. It is a vehicle for self-exploration in that I needed to face these themes straight on, otherwise they could kill me.
In Secret Avengers, I make fun of that self-exploration and explore the absurd parts of it more. I still use the stories to explore the themes and their implications seriously, but then I sometimes push towards absurdism because the comic invites it.
Both of these comics are ways of coping with the world we build, with the identities we build, and making some sense of it. Recently I arrived to the conclusion that I know nothing. I am very happy with it.
Winter Soldier takes both approaches and merges them. What happens when – and after – you finally realize you know nothing?”
Bucky Barnes: The Winter Soldier #1 arrives in October.
This seems to eliminate Bucky from the running as the new Captain America (a role he’s played before.) Steve Rogers recently had the Super Soldier Serum sucked out of him. Marvel is teasing a new hero will assume the role as the Sentinel of Liberty this Fall.
By Editor